St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-07
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of interest tn the People
of the Great Territory.


News Notes of interest to the People
of the Great Territory.
The noted Bohemian and sonorous orator
of the Caledonia iungles probably never made
a hit that conVulsed au audience as did this
in his speech ut Fargo Monday night before
the big crowd that was joifying over the re-
suit of the election. The reference Is to u
well known clergyman of Fargo who rode his
white Arabian Steed Mt the head of pro-
cession OF the reform party just before the
election last fall in Fargo. Col. Plummer
said: II have no confidence in that sort of
political reform that cOmpels minister of
the gospel TO mount a white horse, bearing in
his hand a milk white banner and heading a
procession of nondeScript dudes marching
through this queen city of the Northwest on
the eve of an important election. when his
Divine Master was content to ride into the
royal city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
mounted on that lowy animal that has no
pride of ancestry and no hope of posterity."
Many of the performers" participated in the
joitication, and no one gives any serious
coloring to any of the utterances of the
colonel.
Mayor Roach and several other citizens of
Larimore address joint letter to Frank Les
lies Illustrated paper, alleging that that pa
per and the Scientific American were off the
track in creditiug DR.. Wheeler with being the
inventor of the snow boat in use about Grand
Forks the past winter, and which was SUBJ
ject of recent illustration in those New York
publications. They state that such boats
have been in use in the Elk valley for three
years and have proved quite success. One
of them, the Avalanche, has a record of
mile i'll two and a quarter minutes, carrying
five persons. They do not sail in. them in
billiards. as the helmsman could not Keep
his position, but twenty miles an hour is
common speed for them. Larimore has
club called the Elk Valley Yacht club, which
has number of these boats, and a great deal
of lively sport is had in the winter.
The Bowdle Pioneer regards the lew law
giving the Indians land i'll Severalty on GER
tain of the reservations, as long step to-
ward the solution of the entire Indian QueS
t on,and to result in early time in the opening
OF the surplus Sioux and other lands to white
settlement. The Pioneer says: The settle
ment of the Indians among the whites,
wherever tried. has resulted in their complete
civilization. There is no question but the
Sioux Indians will be equally we'll under the
new law. Already some progress is wltne ssed
among them, notably so among Chief Four
Bears people, who live in houses, and are
successful farmers. Now that these people
are assured of retaining the land selected for
their permanent homes, we look for a marked
progress among them.
A good deal of sport has been had at Mitch
ell over the receipt by one of the clergymen
of barrel sent out from the East filled with
cast-ot clothing, tracts, old religious news
papers, etc., gathered by piouS and indus
trious sewing circle for distribution among
the tatLered and destitute heather Of the
supposed suffering people in the semi-civil-
lied Dakota regions. No doubt the senders
had been accustomed to make up such bar
rels to send to the heather IN foreign lands,
and really have the impression that there is a
degree of restitution ana primitive lack of
religious illumination that would make such
contributions appropriate. 1t is said the
clergyman turned the barrel over to the edi-
tor of one of the local papers.
The proxy business in matrimonial matters
does not seem to be popular in Dakota. A
young farmer in Cass county came to Dakota
three years ago to make a home, leaving his
wife III the East. He worked hard and had
not been back since but having secured $50
acres, improved it, and erected snug house,
ne sent for his family. On his wifes arrival
he discovered that her youngest child was less
than a year old-one more than he had
counted, and he was so captious that he would
not receive her, but sent her back to her
mother. He would accept no explanations.
The child was small, but very little thing
sometimes destroys domestic felicity.
A good many people do not understand
that the amendment to the license law raising
the license to sell liquors from $500 and $500
to $500 and 81 900 does not apply to incor-
porated towns and cities. Practically the
effect of the law will be to restrict liquor SELL
the revenue that has heretofore gone to the
county treasures. No application will prob
ably be made to any county board for license,
as no dealer outside of an Incorporated town
can afford to pay $500.
The Yankton Press takes this lugubrious
view of the new militia law 1.-THE new militia
law of Dakota is wonderfully and fearfully
made. 1t practically subordinates civil law to
military law and lays the foundation for arbi-
trary bayOnet rule. 1t stands as a deliberate
menace to ultra statehood doctrine, and no.
tice to the people to cease bothering them
selves about their liberties. Young men
should study the new law carefully before en-
listing for two years..
The New Era, in Turner county, finds the
policy of the Northwestern railroad in that
section to indicate this route: To run from
Pipestone southwest, an extension of it's HUI
ron branch of the St. Paul & Omaha, and tap
the Worthington & Sioux Falls line at Bran
don, seven miles east of Sioux Falls, run over
that track to Sioux Falls thence southwest to
Centreville and from there over the line al
ready built to Yankton.
Dakota is peculiarly the land Of liberation
of opinion. In politics men have to keep
diaries to recall which side they were on at
the last election. At Watertown the Metho-
distS and Catholics worship in the same
church every Sunday, but have not yet quite
reached the point of exchanging pulpits. In
fact politics and theology blend and tone
DOWN so easily 1t Is often 0l1ncult to dis
tinguiSh either.
Mrs. Huutley, a lady who owns good deal
of land i'll Turner county, mas returned there
after q two years absence in Kansas and
New England, and says she has found no
place more attractive for a home, or where
people can gain so easy a subsistence as in
that part Of Dakota.
Parties who have been arranging to erect
new brewerieS in Dakota are now holding off
to see how the prohibition or local option
movement is to effect that interest. Outside
of the Black Hills they hardly know where to
find a county that may not put up the pro-
scriptive barriers.
One of the South Dakota papers replies to
the complaint of Watertown that it was over
looked by Gov. Church in the distribution of
appointments, that it has a governor Mel
lette) and speaker Eddy of branch of
| legislature. Probably the people of that
| place were too modest in pressing their mer-
| its at Bismarck.
| The Willard Leader, in McHenry county, re-
CARDS the Shook bill, Offering small premiums
| for the destruction of gophers, as the most
| important measure for the farmers of that
! section that came before the legislature For
| some reason Gov. Church did not look favor
| ably upon it..
| In Sargent county there will be an increase
of wheat acreage this year of more than one
| third, and in all the hard wheat region the
acreage will be much larger than ever before.
| The impression is general that it is to be a
great crop year and period of increased
| prosperity.
| The new time table on the Manitoba takes
| the GLOBE to Fargo at $50, an hour and a
| half earlier than heretofore, and night train
has been put on to Grand Forks, so that the
GLOBE reaches there the day of publication
in good time-and the people are much
| pleased.
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